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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
CA & LA Progressive Ballot Research Guide for Nov. 3: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CA & LA Progressive Voting Guide Research Summary (Nov 3, 2026)
November 3, 2026 California & Los Angeles Progressive Voting Guide Research Summary 34 races and measures | Organizational positions, policy choices, and disagreements Share this guide: WhatsApp · Fac...
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Democrats incredulous over Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner meeting
Critics include Senator Chris van Hollen, ex-aide to Obama Tommy Vietor and ex-Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger
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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.brandedentertainmentbrief.com/p/xfinity-bu...
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Xfinity Built a Reality Show
Xfinity built its own reality series this week, and three separate data sets explain why that works.
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bra...
dropsitenews.com
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
kismet-mag.com/reviews/when...
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When In Rome
Steven Phillips-Horst reviews 'Communion,' JD Vance’s memoir full of inconsistent ideas about urbanism, Catholicism, and Millennial Cringe.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just blatant corruption for years and years by Brendan Carr and the other FCC commissioners, including the Democrats, with no attempt to hide it. Good on @propublica.org for shining a sorely needed light. www.propublica.org/article/para...
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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Note to World Cup news presenters: it’s not “Doctor Congo”. 🇨🇩 #DRC #WorldCup (Also for you, @vox.com)
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 07/06/2026
The system created under the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals once helped contain epidemics like the Ebola outbreak in Congo. It has since been dismantled. But Paula Caballero — who made the case for the pact — isn’t giving up. 🔗 politico.eu/article/woma...
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Creators Are the New Hollywood
YouTube said it out loud. Here's what brand teams should actually do with it.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 23/05/2026
pretty crazy how blatant the ending of the late show is just an act of government censorship lol
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you told me in 2021 after J6 that one day Trump would have a $1.776 billion slush fund of taxpayer $$ to hand out to his fellow insurrectionists who committed a heinous crime against America, I wouldn’t have believed it. But the story of Trump has always been a crime story with many accomplices.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Out of respect for the dead entombed in the wreck of the Arizona, rules bar visitors even from wearing swimwear at the memorial. But that didn’t stop Kash Patel. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...
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Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
In August 1964 my father wrote: “People are very scared. To give you some idea of the fear, in this town one Negro has registered to vote this summer, and three have said they will try soon. Everyone fears for his job, and rightly. They stand a good chance of being fired if they try to register.”
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Native-landscaped yards supported 4× higher floral-visitor abundance and 1.5× higher richness than conventional yards, largely driven by bees (Apidae) and hoverflies (Syrphidae), which were positively associated with native plant richness, flower-color diversity, and housing price.
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Native-plant landscaping enhances floral visitation by insects and birds in residential yards - Urban Ecosystems
Urban Ecosystems - Native plant landscaping is gaining traction in cities worldwide for its potential to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem function. However, it remains unclear to what extent...
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
To figure out why Cole Allen did what he did, I obtained a copy of his resume and talked to his former friends. The portrait that emerges is unlike what the White House is saying: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/assassin-w...
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Assassin Wasn’t on FBI’s Radar, Sources Say
Leaked Cole Allen resume + former friends shed light on alleged attacker
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ja...
worksinprogress.co
Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine
Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 23/04/2026
Yousof is a widely-quoted policy expert on US-Iran relations (his dissertation is on US foreign policy particularly related to Iran and nuclear power). It seems likely that this is one of the reasons he was picked up; in addition to his opposition of the current US-Iran war.
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Yousof Azizi - Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) | LinkedIn
Yousof Azizi is a PhD candidate in Public Policy and Administration at Virginia Tech's… · Experience: Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) · Education: Virginia Polytech...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol? These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The United States is in an unprecedented crisis. A convicted criminal has attained the presidency. And he has decided that a crime is not a crime if it is committed on his behalf.
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
If you're wondering how the blockade is landing, this has been making its way around the naval nerds today
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14/04/2026
For decades, presidents avoided even the appearance of profiting from their office. President Donald Trump is taking a different approach. to.pbs.org/482NOaK
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How the Trump family's business deals could open the door for future presidents to profit from office
For the Trump family, business is booming. Whereas the Trump Organization didn’t do a single deal overseas in Donald Trump's first term as president, it did eight in the past year.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I saw a map from NASA showing the reentry began southeast of Hawaii so their trajectory was never over California.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
One of the best "I'm not a racist" letters I've encountered. This one was sent to Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield, an advocate for the 1964 Civil Rights Act that was under consideration at the time this letter was sent to him. The Trump administration feels like the spiritual descendant of this fella.
I am sending a copy of this letter to the Honorable George Wallacd, Governor of Alabama, who I prarefully hope will be our next President.
Senator Hatfield: I'm not a racist because I believe:
I will not live among negroes. (My U.S. Civil Rights) I will not work among negroes. (My U.S. Civil Rights)
I will not have my school children involved with any negro involvement.
(My U. S. Civil Rights)
I will not permit School District # to bus negro students into our neighborhood schools. (My U.S. Civil Rights)
Their could never be a greater time in your political carear, then now, to have the Oregon State Supreme Court rule un-constitutional the civil rights at before the blood-shed commences. We white folks now have our Civil Rights being violated.
A Concerned
Oregonian
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happell, Jr.
6506
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E. 21st Ave.
Portlandy Ore. 97202
BEC/he
Gov. Wallace
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isaac @sevier.io · 09/04/2026
One of the best things i've read this year is from @rmabud.bsky.social and @brusselermel.bsky.social. "Without understanding how the pro-authoritarian coalition has used three interlocking levers to consolidate power, it will be impossible to build something better."
common-wealth.org
The Power Grab: The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy of Power Consolidation
The authoritarian coalition is using three interlocking levers of power to consolidate control: political and institutional control, cultural and narrative power, and economic power.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The way to stay safe on or near an ebike is to stay away from people driving cars, who kill nearly 40k people annually in the US, and well over 1 million people worldwide.
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Electric bikes can be fast and dangerous. Here's how to stay safe
As electric-bike usage has risen, so have e-bike injuries, and regulations in cities and states throughout the country are rapidly changing.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
and that's why when we took down our robert e lee statue here in charlottesville, we melted that bitch.
washingtonpost.com
Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace
The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017, was melted down in secret and will become a new piece of public art.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Those three children would still have a father if Donald Trump had gone to jail for his many, many crimes, including inciting a deadly insurrection on January 6th, as he should have.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/03/2026
Lead investors in US TikTok include Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, private equity firm Silver Lake, and Emirati artificial intelligence investment company MGX
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The Trump administration will somehow make $10 billion off the TikTok deal
The unusually large fee comes after the president brokered the sale of the company's US operations to investors allied with his administration.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them. It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Adding Up What Urban Highways Really Cost
A new report maps the economic toll that downtown freeways exact on 142 US cities — and tallies up what that land could be worth if it was developed for other uses.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/03/2026
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
WHOA: WSJ reporting that DOJ is dropping its appeals of the four law firm executive order rulings as soon as today. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions
The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
In the first term, Trump did a lot of penny ante grifting, but for his second term he's really figured out how to monetize the presidency into making billions. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
How Trump Became the Biggest Crook in the History of Democracy
The penny-ante bribes of his first term have given way to billions in graft.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office: "Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Talarico on Texas bill forcing every classroom to display the Ten Commandments: “If you have to force people to put up a poster to prove your legitimacy, that means we don't have a living faith anymore... When the church gets too cozy with political power, it loses its prophetic voice.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/02/2026
In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration's signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds. www.wired.com/story/suprem...
wired.com
Supreme Court Rules Most of Donald Trump's Tariffs Are Illegal
In a 6-3 ruling, justices upended the Trump administration's signature economic policy, potentially putting the US government on the hook for at least $175 billion in tariff refunds.
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Jeff Hallstead @jeffhallstead.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended "This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime" "I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Bashar al-Assad maintained control of Syria by having secret police abduct his critics and send them to secret prisons where they were tortured to death. Could the same thing work here for Trump?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"It's a Cover-Up": Rep. Ro Khanna on the Trump Administration Protecting The Epstein Class The Trump Administration is involved in covering up the biggest political scandal in modern history, protecting an international cabal of criminals and pedophiles. thelefthook.substack.com/p/its-a-cove...
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"It's a Cover-Up": Rep. Ro Khanna on the Trump Administration Protecting The Epstein Class
The Trump Administration and Republicans are currently involved in covering up the biggest political scandal in modern history, protecting an international cabal of criminals and pedophiles.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Pretty clearly, the president of the United States is involved in a cover-up and a criminal-seeming conspiracy to cover up the worst child rape ring of the century, with one of the two rapists who led the ring.
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